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May 5, 2022 • 4min
Fundid’s injects first funding into providing capital, credit for small businesses
Fundid has a three-pronged approach to simplifying access to capital for small businesses with fewer than 10 employees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 4, 2022 • 4min
Getlife wants to democratize life insurance in Europe
Meet Getlife, a Madrid-based startup that just raised $6.3 million (€6 million) in seed funding. The company wants to make it easier to access life insurance products in Europe. For instance, there’s no medical exams needed to subscribe to Getlife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 4, 2022 • 4min
Backed by Tiger Global and Sequoia India, Toplyne helps product-led growth teams tackle user conversion
For product-led growth companies (PLG), the perennial question is: how do we get non-paying customers to subscribe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 3, 2022 • 4min
LottieFiles raises Series B to make the animation format even more ubiquitous
Lottie animations are everywhere. The JSON-based file format, first introduced as an open-source library by Airbnb engineers, can now be seen in the top 500 iOS and Android apps, said LottieFiles co-founder Kshitij Minglani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 3, 2022 • 4min
Anthropic’s quest for better, more explainable AI attracts $580M
Less than a year ago, Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI VP of research Dario Amodei, intending to perform research in the public interest on making AI more reliable and explainable. Its $124 million in funding was surprising then, but nothing could have prepared us for the company raising $580 million less than a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 2, 2022 • 5min
Vyoma is the latest player seeking to prevent satellite collisions with space junk
As you might’ve heard, it’s getting a little crowded in space, between thousand-satellite constellations à la SpaceX’s Starlink and the millions of pieces of space junk accumulated from decades of launches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 2, 2022 • 4min
Glorang scores $10M Series A to expand its edtech marketplace across Asia
Glorang, a Seoul-based edtech startup that offers after-school classes and extracurricular activities via online for students between the ages of 3 and 18, said Friday it has raised a $10 million Series A funding co-led by Korea Investment Partners and Murex Partners, along with Japan’s Pksha Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 29, 2022 • 4min
HackerOne buys YC-backed PullRequest to add code review to bug-squashing platform
PullRequest, a five year old startup that came out of Y Combinator in 2017, helps software developers by providing an external code review team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 29, 2022 • 5min
Madison Reed, which made DTC hair color a thing, is now going after larger retail footprint
Buoyed by a new $33 million investment, plans are in the works to add another 20 hair color bar locations and hire 850 new colorists by the end of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 28, 2022 • 6min
Deepset raises $14M to help companies build NLP apps
Natural language processing (NLP), the field of AI that involves parsing text for tasks including summarization and generation, is a fast-growing technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
